THE RUHR: A New Offer

German
Chancellor Stresemann offered the French Government mortgages on
public and private property, which means that the Allies will be
assured of a fixed sum of money on account of reparations as well as
security. Herr Gustav Stresemann is expected to call off passive
resistance as soon as his Government has received Franco-Belgian
assurances that Germany will be given complete control in the Ruhr and
that German sovereignty will be allowed to reassert itself in the
Rhineland.

The Chancellor, in his speech in Berlin, made it clear that the German
economic...